a game similar to ice hockey (= a game played on ice between two teams in which players try to hit a small, hard disk into the other team's goal using a curved stick), also played on ice, in which the players run rather than skate and use sticks with rubber ends similar in shape to a broom (= a brush with a long handle). These sticks are also called brooms.

In the slip-sliding game of broomball, the resounding "thwack" of brooms smacking smartly together is a celebration of a goal. 在扫帚球的滑动游戏中，扫帚巧妙地拍打在一起的响亮的“重击”是对进球的庆祝。